{"product_id":"9780745348605","title":"Ere Roosevelt Came","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEre Roosevelt Came\u003c\/em\u003e is a short novel by early pan-Africanist Dusé Mohamed Ali. Originally serialised in Ali's Nigerian magazine \u003cem\u003eThe Comet\u003c\/em\u003e in 1934, it grapples with the rise of global fascism and white supremacy, and the growing geopolitical influence of the USA in the interwar period.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a fantastical, intricately woven and speculative story about how Black American airmen, organising in secret, fight an international assemblage of white supremacists and Russian foreign agents bent on instigating a new world war. The narrative reveals how Black liberation struggles, Bolshevism, and the rise of so-called 'coloured' Japanese empires were bound together in the Pan-African literary imaginary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten by a Sudanese-Egyptian, serialised in West Africa, and set in the USA, \u003cem\u003eEre Roosevelt Came\u003c\/em\u003e is a Pan-African novel \u003cem\u003epar excellence\u003c\/em\u003e, and a fascinating historical document that conveys the complexities of Black internationalism in the interwar years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe novel is presented with two original, contextualising essays and appendices featuring selected other writings to provide further insight into Ali's vision of a Pan-African future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dusé Mohamed Ali","offers":[{"title":"Pluto Press |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (UK) |  2024-01-20","offer_id":44663107092735,"sku":"9780745348605","price":36.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_ac8ef668-be5d-428b-926e-f27955a77a40.jpg?v=1710402965","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780745348605","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}